I keep up with the trends in 3D printing reasonably well. The other day my friend mentioned that filament thickness sensing had been added to the latest version of the Marlin firmware. I had no idea ...

Explore Nammo Composite Solutions' journey from oil and gas origins to aerospace and defense composites expertise, featuring filament winding, braiding, and continuous innovation.

Extruders are devices that heat and melt the feedstock and extrude it through the nozzle along a predetermined path on the print bed. Based on the material feeding, 3D printers are classified as ...

Filament winding is an automated composites manufacturing process in which a mobile placement device wraps continuous fiber reinforcements (resin-impregnated or dry) around the outer surface of a ...

Fibre handling and converting technology company Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, UK) has developed a way of winding composite fibres at a zero-degree angle to create curved and straight structural parts ...

Last week, we took a first look at the dual-filament Ultimaker 3 printer. This week, we dive into one of the key features that provides the printer with its power and flexibility: its extruders.

However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are 3devo! A Dutch startup, 3devo, part of the engineering company Detoteq, has developed a filament extruder for 3-D printing, called the Next 1.0, aimed at the “maker” ...